EducationCommentary
A Test Fit for America’s Finest Schools
“Merit” is making a comeback in higher education. Next stop: U.S. service academies. College officials around the country—including those at some of the most selective… Read More
EducationCommentary
Diversity Initiatives Persist at UVA Despite Promised Reforms
The University of Virginia was supposed to have dismantled its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives by now. Two weeks ago, amid accusations that the university… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Real Reason Universities Want Foreign Students and Oppose Deporting Troublemakers
The State Department had revoked about 1,500 visas throughout the United States as of late April, Inside Higher Ed estimates. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has… Read More
EducationCommentary
The Real Cost of Student Loan Forgiveness
Each spring, as tassels are turned and degrees are conferred, college graduates across the country celebrate the culmination of years of study, sacrifice, and—inevitably for… Read More
SocietyCommentary
COLUMBIA CHAOS: Radicals Disrupt Campus, Invite Trump Crackdown
Columbia University’s pro-Hamas radicals couldn’t have handed the Trump administration an easier opening in its war on college campus radicalism. On Wednesday afternoon, pro-Palestinian protesters… Read More
Education News
House Panel’s Republicans Prepare to Grill College Prexies on Campus Antisemitism
A day before a scheduled House hearing to question college presidents on their responses to campus antisemitism, Republican lawmakers made clear their willingness to fight… Read More
EducationNews
Harvard by the Numbers: How University Will Fare Without Taxpayer Subsidies
Losing federal funding will hit more than two-thirds of Harvard University’s research grants, but the vaunted Ivy League institution won’t be financially strapped in other… Read More
EducationCommentary
Safeguarding Students: Stopping China’s Infiltration of US Universities
America’s students deserve better than to be treated as pawns in the Chinese Communist Party’s long game to undermine our country. We can all agree… Read More
Education Commentary
Harvard’s Report on Campus Antisemitism Is Damning
It looks like the Trump administration had a very good reason to go after Harvard. Harvard University released a lengthy and damning report Tuesday on campus antisemitism… Read More
EducationNews
EXCLUSIVE: Legislation Would Codify Trump Order Barring Decertifying Colleges Over DEI
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Republican senator wants to codify President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion discrimination in higher education… Read More
EducationNews
Americans Support Pulling Funds from Harvard, Taxing Endowments According to Poll
Americans are broadly supportive of the Trump administration’s battle with Harvard University, and majorities even support the federal government taxing the endowments of wealthy universities. This… Read More
EducationNews
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Executive Order Will Bar Decertifying Colleges Over DEI
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday prohibiting higher education accreditors from participating in unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion… Read More
Commentary
Advice for Ivy League Universities: Take the Trump Deal, Before It’s Too Late
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see… Read More
Commentary
Harvard’s Radicalization: Lower Standards, Middle Eastern Cash, Politicization
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see… Read More
EducationNews
White House Battle With Harvard Intensifies
In the latest escalation of a feud between Harvard University and the White House, President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to pull the Ivy League institution’s… Read More
Commentary
Trump’s Campus Crackdown Is Long Overdue
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see… Read More
PoliticsAnalysis
‘Not a Joke,’ as Biden Might Say: Harris Reportedly Urged to Start a Think Tank
A New York Times article on Thursday presented a surprising possible next move for former Vice President Kamala Harris—establishing a think tank for “policy and… Read More
Education Commentary
Rubio Stands Firm: No More Student Visa Privileges for Terrorism Backers
Protesters are getting exactly what they asked for when they waved Hamas flags, burned American flags, and turned college campuses into breeding grounds for extremism…. Read More
Education Commentary
Save Your School, Don’t Donate Today
It’s no secret that American colleges and universities, once revered as pillars of intellectual integrity, have devolved into hotbeds of anti-American ideologies and radical left-wing… Read More
EducationNews
EXCLUSIVE: Group Equips Parents to Lobby Lawmakers to Follow Trump’s Edict on Girls Sports
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative organization for parents is equipping them to challenge their elected representatives who are defying President Donald Trump’s executive order… Read More
EducationNews
Texas Lawmaker ‘Sneaks’ into University’s Transgender Event, Exposes Programs Funded by Taxpayers
Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison sounded the alarm after he “snuck” into a state-funded transgender conference at the University of Texas at Austin on Monday,… Read More
EducationCommentary
The DEI Higher Ed Machine Is Crumbling
The Trump administration is routing DEI regimes on college campuses. The University of California announced Wednesday that it would drop diversity statement requirements when hiring… Read More
EducationNews
How Red States Plan to Carry Out Trump’s Executive Order Eliminating the Department of Education
Red state officials awaiting guidance on how to respond to the executive order dismantling the Department of Education say they are eager to centralize authority… Read More
EducationNews
Why Trump Aims to Put His Secretary of Education Out of Work
President Donald Trump said Thursday he hopes his executive order to begin eliminating the Department of Education will put Secretary of Education Linda McMahon out… Read More
EducationNews
‘The Department of Education Has Not Improved Student Achievement’
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon that aims to eliminate as much of the Department of Education as he can. The move… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Don’t Close Columbia’s Research Labs. Move Them.
The Trump administration is threatening to cut $400 million in research funding at Columbia University unless the institution remedies its failure to comply with Title… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Good Riddance, Mahmoud Khalil
On the same day that Islamic State terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar murdered 15 Americans by plowing a car into a crowd in New Orleans, thousands of… Read More
Commentary
A Perfect Storm Threatens Universities
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Yes, Non-Citizen Terror Supporters Should Leave
It should go without saying, but America does not need more Hamas sympathizers. Yet this simple truth seems to confound a wide variety of commentators… Read More
LawNews
Pro-Hamas Columbia Student’s Arrest First of ‘Continuous and Ongoing Effort,’ White House Official Says
The arrest of terrorist-sympathizing former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is part of a larger effort to root out antisemitism from American universities, The Daily Signal has… Read More
